The Art of Conducting (2018)
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Not quite: https://www.thepiano.sg/piano/read/conductor-killed-conducti...
Anyhow: I haven't sat with an instrument before a conductor, but I have been in the chorus. A huge part of their work happens in rehearsal, not at the concert.
when you see them gesture to the horns or woodwinds, he's already told them what he means by that, and they've written it in their scores.
After the rehearsal, I mentioned it to my boss, and he confirmed it's his experience with orchestras as well. They're somehow able to come in together but definitely behind what the conductor shows, while organists are used to staying exactly with the beat pattern. He said it's particularly annoying for things like the Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony, where the organ's supposed to come crashing in on a huge chord directly with the orchestra.
There are other monitors out in the wings. Everyone has to watch the conductor, or they'll get behind.
The Art of Conducting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15982100 - Dec 2017 (30 comments)
The conductor acts as a manager, leading the orchestra from both a governance view (outside of performance) and an operational view (during performance).
Points out a good thing about HN: its community isn’t single-area focused like, say, a subreddit.
And by “tree” I mean the vegetation kind, not pruning graph structure…
“If you have it, you don’t need to have anything else; and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t much matter what else you have.”
Personally, I'm waiting for the VR game that allows me to conduct an orchestra. That game will change everything.